First viewed : 4 January 1989
This was my favourite travel series , usually broadcast in clumps of two or three episodes between 1989 and 1995. It later transferred to ITV.
Quite obviously, Clive was not your average Joe Tourist and made full use of his privileged access to the rich, famous and beautiful. The opening Postcard from Rio began by interviewing the model grand-daughter of the original Girl from Ipanema in a tiny bikini on Copacabana Beach. Nice work, Clive. Not all of the glitterati, I imagine, were terribly impressed by the acerbic commentary that was subsequently added to the footage but that's what made the series so entertaining.
The ones I recall best are
Paris - where he had a hair-raising drive courtesy of novelist and serial car crasher Francoise Sagan
Rome - Clive sees a sexologist Dr Cirillo who has him feeling up a girl half-hidden behind a piece of chipboard
Dallas - Clive struggles to eat a ridiculously large steak
Sydney - Clive goes to the Opera House by power boat with a yuppie couple.
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